Please join the Columbia Law School Human Rights Institute, the Center for Chinese Legal Studies, the Institute for the Study of Human Rights, and Scholars at Risk for a discussion of “To Build a Free China” by imprisoned rights lawyer and law professor Xu Zhiyong, and the ways in which legal advocacy is developing as a form of political resistance.
Panelists
- Teng Biao, Chinese defense lawyer and human rights activist, Scholars at Risk
- Andrew Nathan, Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University
- Eva Pils, Reader in Transnational Law, King's College London; Visiting Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
Lunch will be provided
For questions regarding the event, please contact Randi Aho at the Human Rights Institute at randi.aho@law.columbia.edu.